乌干达青年公共卫生大使计划:一个基于社区的公共卫生倡议
Heather Wipfli1,2, Abigail Kim2, Cecilia Alonyo3
1USC Global Research, Implementation, and Training Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
青年公共卫生大使 (YPHA) 计划使乌干达和肯尼亚的年轻人成为公共卫生领导者. 这项倡议提高了他们在健康教育,研究和社区宣传方面的技能.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社区健康 社区健康
- 青年发展 青年发展
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19大流行,我们需要迅速转向以虚拟社区为基础的青年公共卫生培训.
- 青年公共卫生大使 (YPHA) 计划由USC的GRIT实验室开发,最初在乌干达,并扩展到肯尼亚.
- YPHA计划作为一个可扩展的模型,以年轻人为重点的公共卫生倡议在不同的设置.
研究的目的:
- 评估YPHA计划在提高年轻人公共卫生知识和技能方面的有效性.
- 评估青年大使进行社区健康评估和参与政策宣传的能力.
- 为青年领导的公共卫生干预建立一个可复制的模型.
主要方法:
- 一个多年的培训计划,涉及来自东非和美国的公共卫生学生和专业人员.
- 赋予年轻人 (18-24岁) 作为同行教育者,数据收集者和变革推动者的权力.
- 三个核心组成部分:公共卫生教育,基于社区的参与性研究和社区外展/数据传播.
主要成果:
- 毕业生在所有主题上都表现出对公共卫生教育的掌握和信心增加.
- 大使成功地收集和分析了家庭,卫生设施和学校的数据,以进行社区健康评估.
- 年轻人成功地向社区成员,政策制定者和卫生部传播了这些发现.
结论:
- YPHA计划有效地提高了青年在公共卫生教育,研究和宣传方面的能力.
- 调查结果支持增加对以青年为中心的健康促进和青年领导的政策倡议的投资.
- 该计划提供了一个成功的框架,让年轻人参与解决社区卫生需求.
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